Abstract
In the twenty-first century, international borders are being rethought and remade after the concept of a 'borderless world' of the 1990s lost its promise. This article looks at some of the ways in which borders have recently been re-conceptualized and framed through case studies of two museological projects: the Border Patrol Museum in El Paso, Texas and the Mauermuseum/Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. As abstract, conceptual phenomena, geographical borders pose a representational quandary that is addressed not only through state strategies of demarcation and surveillance, but also through soft power and the strategies of architectural and museological display that bolster popular support for, and lend meaning to, the abstraction of a line.
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